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domingo, 11 de junio de 2017

US soccer team braces for anti-Trump backlash at game in Mexico City

US soccer team braces for anti-Trump backlash at game in Mexico City
- U.S. national soccer team members know they'll face a hostile crowd when they play Mexico in Mexico City Sunday night.
It would be tough enough playing the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier at
the high-altitude Azteca Stadium, in front of around 100,000 fans. That
job will be made more difficult by the fact many of those fans will see
the U.S. team as a proxy for President Donald Trump. The controversial
politician launched his presidential campaign with a speech targeting
Mexican immigrants to the U.S. (“When Mexico sends its people, they’re
not sending their best. … They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing
crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”) And he's
vowed to build a wall between the two nations.